592 pages : 27 cm

"Date of publication: April 15, 2014"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Foreword : the 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition / Terrence M. Gosliner and Meg Burke -- Expedition participants and logistics / Terrence M. Gosliner and Meg Burke -- From parachutes to partnerships : an "integrated" natural history museum expedition in the Philippines / Terrence M. Gosliner and Meg Burke -- 2011 Philippine Biodiversity Expedition summary / Richard Ross -- The three research components of the Hearst Biodiversity Expedition to the Philippines / Gary C. Williams -- Illustrated key to the shallow-water gorgonians and pennatulaceans of the Verde Island Passage, northern Philippines, including synopses of the taxa and a glossary of terms (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Octocorallia) / Gary C. Williams and Jei-Ying Chen -- Three new species of Gymnodoris nudibranchs from the Philippines / Vanessa L. Knutson and Terrence M. Gosliner -- A new species of Myrianida Milne Edwards, 1845 (Autolytinae: Syllidae: Annelida), from Luzon, Phillipine Islands / Patricia Álvarez-Campos, Guillermo San Martín, and Christina Piotrowski -- A new scaleworm, Iphione malifera (Polychaeta: Iphionidae) from a coral reef in the Philippine Islands / Christina N. Piotrowski -- Sternaspis piotrowskiae sp. nov. (Polychaeta: Sternaspidae) from the Philippine Islands / Sergio I. Salazar-Vallejo -- Barnacle symbionts of gorgonian sea fans : description of seven new species (Archaeobalanidae: Cirripedia) from the Philippines / Robert J. Van Syoc, Dana Carrison-Stone, Liezl Madrona, and Gary C. Williams -- Sea urchins of the Philippines / Rich Mooi and Angelica Munguia -- Collection, transport and husbandry of the coconut octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus (Taki, 1964), from the Philippines / Bart Shepherd, Richard Ross, and Marisa Avila -- Two new hemerocoetine Trichonotidae fishes (Teleostei, Perciformes) from the Philippines / Tomio Iwamoto -- Deep-water fishes of the 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences / Tomio Iwamoto and John McCosker -- A gigantic deep-water worm eel (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the Verde Island Passage, Philippine Archipelago / John McCosker -- Redescription of Eptatretus luzonicus Fernholm et al., 2013, a replacement name for Eptatretus fernholmi McMillan and Wisner, 2004 (Craniata: Myxinidae), based on the discovery of the holotype and additional specimens from the Philippines / Michael Maia Mincarone and John E. McCosker -- Six new species of Philine (Opisthobranchia: Philinidae) from the tropical Indo-Pacific / Claire Gonzales and Terrence Gosliner -- Deep-water lobsters (Astacidea, Polychelida), shrimps (Caridea, Penaeoidea) and a lophogastrid from the California Academy of Sciences' Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition, 2011 / Mary K. Wicksten -- Collection and preparation techniques of bryophyte specimens in biodiversity inventories / James R. Shevock, Ivy Amor F. Lambio, and Benito C. Tan -- New ray spiders from Southeast Asia : male and female evidence to define the new Philippine genus Tagalogonia gen. nov. and continental genus Coddingtonia Miller, Griswold, and Yin, 2009 (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) / Facundo M. Labarque and Charles E. Griswold -- Redescription of the flatbacked millipede Ilodesmus margaritiferus (Gervais, 1836) (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Platyrhacidae) from the Philippines / Facundo M. Labarque, Veverled A. San Juan, Ireneo L. Lit Jr., and Charles e. Griswold -- An annotated and illustrated list of the carabid beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae) from the California Academy of Sciences' 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition / David H. Kavanaugh, Victor G. Smith, and Michael Krasnobrod -- The dangerously venomous snakes of the Philippine Archipelago, with identification keys and species accounts / Alan E. Leviton, Rape M. Brown, and Cameron D. Siler -- How expeditions drive clinical research / Matthew Lewin -- The education log of the 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition / Meg Burke and Roberta Brett -- Epilogue / Gary C.Williams -- Index / prepared by A.E. Leviton

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